[Baypiggies] Suggestions on some python client/server development.

[William Deegan]

Keith,

I'm not sure you groked this from my original message.
The client is not a browser, but a command line tool.

-Bill

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Keith Dart <keith at dartworks.biz> wrote:
> === On Tue, 11/23, William Deegan wrote: ===
>> I've not done anything like this in python yet, so I figured I'd float
>> it out to the group for some suggestions on where to start and/or
>> which technologies/packages might be useful to avoid just replicating
>> exactly the c++ code..
>
> ===
>
> Well, there are many options. But the way I'd probably do it is use
> Javascript XHR on the browser side to fetch the data from the server.
> The server for that data just serves JSON serialized data so it's
> lightweight and fast.
>
> One example of this is here:
>
> http://mochi.github.com/mochikit/examples/ajax_tables/index.html
>
> The backend can be twisted, with simplejson.
>
> I also have a proxy object already written that makes the JSON
> serialization transparent.
>
> Server side:
> http://code.google.com/p/pycopia/source/browse/trunk/WWW/pycopia/WWW/json.py
>
> Client side:
> http://code.google.com/p/pycopia/source/browse/trunk/WWW/media/js/proxy.js
>
> It's part of the pycopia-WWW web application framework.
>
>
>
> -- Keith Dart
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